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2A I Thursday, August 31, 2006 | The Red & Black
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UGA TODAY
>■ Demosthenian Literary
Society Meeting. 7 p.m.
Demosthenian Hall. Contact
Josh Weiss jdweiss@uga.edu
> Libertarians of UGA
Meeting. 8 p.m. Hot Comer
Coffee. Contact liberty-
dawgs@gmail.com,
www.uga.edu/libertarians
> Mark Richt Speech.
7 p.m. Georgia Hall, Tate
Center. Sponsor: H.E.R.O. for
Children. Contact: Bonnie
Williams, bonniew@uga.edu,
(678) 234-9995
Friday
> Ecology Seminar.
“Invasive Plant Impacts on
Wildlife: A Search for
Generalities.” Noon. Warnell
School of Forestry and
Natural Resources Ecology
Auditorium. Sponsor: Institute
of Ecology. Contact:
anisaj@uga.edu
>- “First Friday Pep
Rally”. Stegeman Coliseum.
5:30 - 7 p.m. Doors open at 5
p.m. Sponsor: UGAAIumni
Association. Cost: free, and
the first 1,000 fans receive a
commemorative t-shirt
Saturday
>- Fall Bird Rambles. 8-11
a.m. Orange Trail Kiosk near
the upper parking lot of the
State Botanical Garden.
Contact sbgeduc@uga.edu,
(706) 542-6156.
>- Nuci’s Space Benefit
Cookout. 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.
Earth Fare. Cost: $5 grilled
lunch plate supports Nuci’s
Space. With live music by
local musicians.
Sunday
> Grafica Mexicana
Exhibition. Through Sunday,
Oct. 29. Georgia Museum of
Art. Sponsor: Friends of the
Georgia Museum of Art and
the W. Newton Morris
Charitable Foundation. Prints
from the mid-1940s Mexico.
Contact (706) 542-4662,
www.uga.edu/gamuseum
Monday
>- Tsunami Photo
Exhibition. “Rebuilding
Homes, Renewing Spirits.”
Through Sept. 14. Sponsor:
UGA Habitat for Humanity.
Contact
ugahabitat@hotmail.com
Tuesday
>- Comedian Godfrey.
8 p.m. Georgia Hall. Sponsor:
University Union. Cost: $5
Pre-show, $7 Day of Show for
UGA Students; $12 Pre-show,
$14 Day of show for non-stu
dents. Contact (706)-542-
6396, mlamotte@uga.edu
Wednesday
>- Dorm Days. 4 - 6 p.m.
Reed Quad. Sponsor: Phi
Sigma Pi Co-Ed Honor
Fraternity.
Contact www.uga.edu/phisigpi
Sunday
►Taped rebroadcast:
Congressional Field
Hearing on Agroterrorism.
4 and 8 p.m. On
University Cablevision,
Channel 15.
“Agroterrorism's Perfect
Storm: Where Human and
Animal Diseases Collide.”
Tuesday
►Art Lecture. 6:30 - 8 p.m.
Main Gallery, 116 Visual
Arts Bldg. Sponsor:
Lamar Dodd School of
Art and the Franklin
College of Arts and
Sciences. “Sheets in the
Wind,” an installation by
Nell Ruby. Contact (706)
542-1511, artinfoiguga.edu
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TOP STORIES FROM AROUND
THE STATE, NATION AND WORLD
Israel rejects U.N. chief’s demands to
lift blockades, withdraw from Lebanon
JERUSALEM — Israel
rejected demands Wednesday
from visiting U.N. Secretary-
General Kofi Annan that it
immediately lift its sea and
air blockade of Lebanon and
withdraw its forces once 5,000
international troops are
deployed.
Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert indicated Israel would
only lift the blockade and
withdraw its soldiers from
Lebanon after the full imple
mentation of a U.N.-brokered
cease-fire.
Annan and Israeli officials
said they hoped that the
truce would lead to a full
peace accord between Israel
and Lebanon.
However, Lebanese Prime
Minister Fuad Saniora said in
Beirut that Lebanon “will be
the last Arab country that
could sign a peace agreement
with Israel.”
And a Hezbollah minister
in the Lebanese Cabinet
said that the guerrilla group
will not unconditionally
release two Israeli soldiers
whose capture set off the con
flict, saying they only would
be freed in a prisoner
exchange.
“There will be no uncondi
tional release. This is not pos
sible,” Minister of Energy and
Hydraulic Resources
Mohammed Fneish said in
Beirut. “There should be an
exchange through indirect
negotiations. This is the prin
ciple to which Hezbollah and
the resistance are adhering.”
Israel has said it would not
lift its blockade unless inter
national forces, along with
Lebanese troops, are
deployed on the Israel-
Lebanon border and
Lebanon’s frontier with Syria
to prevent the flow of
weapons to Hezbollah.
—Associated Press
KAREL PRINSLOO Associated PRESS
A Lebanese soldiers man a roadblock Wednesday in the Lebanese town of Ibel Al Saki.
Israel sidestepped U.N. demands that it immediately lift its blockade of Lebanon.
Iran keeps nuclear program, uranium enrichment
YAHYA AHMED | Associated PRESS
A Iraqi army soldiers inspect the damaged minibus in
Kirkuk, Iraq, Wednesday, after a suicide bomber blew him
self up inside the bus, killing three people, police said.
VIENNA, Austria — A defi
ant Iran kept on enriching
uranium up to two days
before the U.N. Security
Council’s Thursday deadline
for Tehran to freeze such
activity or face the threat of
sanctions, U.N. and European
officials said.
Iranian President
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
urged European members of
the council against resorting
to sanctions, saying punish
ment would not dissuade his
country from pursuing its dis
puted nuclear program.
“Sanctions cannot dis
suade the Iranian nation from
achieving our lofty goals of
progress. So it’s better for
Europe to be independent (of
the U.S.) in decision-making
and to settle problems
through negotiations,”
Ahmadinejad said
Wednesday, according to
state-run television.
Iran could theoretically
still announce a full stop to
enrichment before the dead
line set by the Security
Council. But that appeared
unlikely, considering Tehran’s
past refusal to consider such
a move and findings by the
International Atomic Energy
Agency that it was enriching
small quantities of uranium
as late as Tuesday
WORLD
Iran’s refusal to heed the
Security Council up to now
will be detailed in a confiden
tial IAEA report to be com
pleted Thursday and circulat
ed among the Vienna-based
agency’s 35 board member
nations. The report also will
include new details on
Tehran’s research into
advanced enrichment equip
ment, and other points, diplo
mats accredited to the
agency told The Associated
Press.
The report, also scheduled
to go to the Security Council
on Thursday, would likely
trigger council members to
consider economic and politi
cal sanctions. Russia and
China, however, were likely to
resist U.S.-led efforts for a
quick response, which likely
means sanctions do not loom
immediately.
An earlier resolution on
Iran took weeks for the
Security Council members to
negotiate, as did talks over a
weaker council statement
earlier this year demanding
that Iran suspend enrich
ment.
The U.S. ambassador to
the United Nations, John
Bolton, said the U.S. still has
not decided how it will for
mally respond once the dead
line expires, though he will
likely make some sort of
statement on Thursday after
noon. He repeated, however,
that Washington would seek
sanctions if Iran disregards
the resolution.
Iraqi troops could
take over next year
BAGHDAD, Iraq — The top
U.S. general in Iraq said
Wednesday that Iraqi forces
should be able to take over
security with little coalition
support as early as next year,
even as bloodshed around the
country killed at least 66 peo
ple.
Violence has spiked in
recent days, with more than
200 people dying since the
beginning of the week in
clashes, bombings or shoot
ings.
Gen. George Casey
nonetheless said Iraqi troops
are on course to eventually
take over from coalition
forces.
“I don’t have a date, but I
can see over the next 12 to 18
months, the Iraqi security
forces progressing to a point
where they can take on the
security responsibilities for
the country, with very little
coalition support,” Casey
said.
His comments do not nec
essarily mean the United
States will be pulling troops
from the country, but
American officials have
always maintained that build
ing up the Iraqi security
forces is vital to any U.S. exit
strategy.
A roadside bomb killed 24
people in Baghdad’s largest
and oldest wholesale market
district, Shurja, where ven
dors sell food, clothing and
home products from ware
houses, stalls and shops. At
least 35 people were wound
ed.
Earlier, an explosives-
rigged bicycle blew up near
an army recruiting center in
Hillah, a city about 60 miles
south of Baghdad, killing at
least 12 people. A man posing
as an army applicant planted
the bomb-laden bicycle out
side the recruiting center as
volunteers gathered outside.
—Associated Press
STEFANO PALTERA | Associated press
A Comedian Dave Chappelle told an audience at Ohio’s
Central State University Tuesday that leaving his TV show
was “one of the best decisions I’ve ever made in my life.”
Chappelle: no regrets
about leaving TV show
WILBERFORCE, Ohio —
Dave Chappelle doesn’t
regret his decision to walk
away from a $50 million deal
to continue his hit Comedy
Central television show.
However, he might miss the
money.
Halting his “Chappelle’s
Show” last year was “one of
the best decisions I’ve ever
made in my life,” the 33-year-
old comedian said Tuesday
while addressing the opening
convocation at Central State
University.
“Now, economically, it
makes no sense at all,” he
added.
Chappelle, who lives near
the southwest Ohio village of
Yellow Springs, encouraged
students not to compromise
their values.
Video award nods
annoy Kanye West
NEW YORK — One of the
best videos wasn’t even nom-
NAMES & FACES
mated, according to Kanye
West, the maker of said
video.
West, who’s nominated for
best pop video at Thursday’s
MTV Video Music Awards for
“Gold Digger,” says his elabo
rate Evel Knievel spoof
“Touch the Sky” — featuring
Pamela Anderson — was bet
ter than that.
“It didn’t get any nomina
tions, but it’s one of the most
memorable videos of the year
for me,” he said Tuesday
night, speaking backstage
before performing at an
exclusive concert for
American Express cardhold
ers.
West said he doesn’t see
his videos as a way to boost
his sales — and noted that
even though “Touch the Sky”
was his favorite video, the
song was not a huge hit.
—Associated Press
California law to reduce emissions
SACRAMENTO, Calif. —
California would become the
first state to impose a cap on
all greenhouse gas emis
sions, including those from
industrial plants, under a
landmark deal reached
Wednesday by Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger and legisla
tive Democrats.
The agreement marks a
clear break with the Bush
administration and puts
California on a path to
reducing its emissions of
carbon dioxide and other
greenhouse gases by an esti
mated 25 percent by 2020.
The bill still needs legisla
tive approval. It would
require the state’s major
industries — such as utility
plants, oil and gas refineries
and cement kilns — to
reduce their emissions of the
pollutants widely believed to
contribute to global warm
ing.
The key mechanism driv
ing the reductions will be a
market program that will
allow businesses to buy, sell
and trade emission credits
with other companies.
Jeffs still leader for
many congregants
HILDALE, Utah — In his
two years as a fugitive,
polygamist church leader
Warren Jeffs never loosened
his grip on his 10,000 congre
gants, and people close to
the sect say his arrest this
week won’t change that.
“I think there’s a struc
ture in place that if Warren
got caught they’ll still carry
out his word, and they’ll fig
ure out how to keep commu
nicating with him,” said
Andrew Chatwin, a former
church member.
Jeffs, 50, was caught by
chance when a Cadillac
Escalade in which he was
riding was pulled over by the
Nevada Highway Patrol for
NATION AND STATE
having a temporary
Colorado license tag that
was hard to read, FBI and
Nevada Highway Patrol offi
cials said.
The Fundamentalist
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, with con
gregants mostly in Hildale
and neighboring Colorado
City, Ariz., split from the
mainstream Mormon
Church when the Mormons
disavowed polygamy more
than 100 years ago.
Jeffs, who took over the
renegade sect in 2002 after
the death of his 98-year-old
father, has been on the FBI’s
Ten Most Wanted list since
May, charged in Utah and
Arizona with felony sex
crimes that include alleged
arranged marriages between
underaged girls and older
men.
Sex offender found
guilty, faces death
FARGO, N.D. — A con
victed sex offender on trial
in North Dakota’s first death
penalty case in more than a
century was found guilty
Wednesday of kidnapping
and killing a college student
who was seized from a shop
ping mall parking lot.
The jury will return next
week to begin hearing evi
dence on whether Alfonso
Rodriguez Jr., 53, should be
executed for the slaying of
22-year-old Dru Sjodin.
North Dakota does not
have capital punishment.
But the case was heard in
federal court, where the jury
took less than four hours to
reach a verdict.
Sjodin, a University of
North Dakota student from
Pequot Lakes, Minn., was
abducted outside a Grand
Forks mall in 2003. Her body
was found the following
spring in a ravine near
Crookston, Minn.
Prosecutors said Sjodin
(pronounced shuh-DEEN)
was stabbed, raped and left
to die.
Before Sjodin’s slaying,
Rodriguez had served more
than 20 years for offenses
that included rape and
attempted kidnapping. He
got out of prison about six
months before the killing.
In closing arguments, U.S.
Attorney Drew Wrigley said
Sjodin fought for her life
“every step of the way” and
“left us unmistakable mes
sages,” including her blood
in Rodriguez’s car, discov
ered in a mist pattern that
indicated she was beaten.
Kidd hopes for new
redistricting maps
ATLANTA — A
Democratic state lawmaker,
caught in a battle over redis
tricting, pushed Wednesday
for an independent commis
sion to oversee the drawing
of political boundaries in
Georgia.
Rep. Jane Kidd of
Athens-Clarke County said
that if she wins election to
the state Senate in
November she will move
quickly to introduce a con
stitutional amendment on
redistricting. Her bill would
create a nonpartisan com
mission to recommend new
political maps for state law
makers and members of
Congress every 10 years. The
state Legislature would still
have to give final approval to
the commission’s maps.
Kidd made the comments
to a task force set up Gov.
Sonny Perdue to examine
redistricting in Georgia. The
task force is set to come out
with a report in December.
—Associated Press